U+FB50 "ﭐ" Arabic Letter Alef Wasla Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FB50 "ﭐ" Arabic Letter Alef Wasla Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter alef combined with a wasla, a diacritic symbol that indicates the absence of a glottal stop or elision in pronunciation, typically used in specific contexts like the definite article or certain prefixes. This isolated form appears as a standalone character, designed for use in Arabic script rendering systems where positional variants (isolated, initial, medial, final) are required, though its use is largely historical or for specialized typographic purposes rather than in modern standard text. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which provides precomposed forms to facilitate the display of complex script ligatures and variations, ensuring that the character aligns correctly with surrounding letters in right-to-left text layouts.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ﭐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ﭐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xAD 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFB50 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FB50 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ufb50 |
Unicode Properties